Chen, Daniel L. and Ornaghi, Arianna (2023) Gender Attitudes in the Judiciary: Evidence from U.S. Circuit Courts. American Economic Journal : Applied Economics. (In Press)

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Abstract

Do gender attitudes influence interactions with female judges in U.S. Circuit Courts? In this paper, we propose a judge-specific measure of gender attitudes based on use of gender-stereotyped language in the judge’s authored opinions. Exploiting quasi-random assignment of judges to cases and conditioning on judges’ characteristics, we validate the measure showing that higher-slant judges vote more conservatively in gender-related cases. Higher-slant judges interact differently with female colleagues: they are more likely to reverse lower-court decisions if the lower-court judge is a woman than a man, are less likely to assign opinions to female judges, and cite fewer female-authored opinions.

Item Type: Article
Language: English
Date: 2023
Refereed: Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords: Gender attitudes, judiciary, stereotypes, NLP
JEL Classification: J16 - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
J70 - General
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 13 Dec 2022 10:15
Last Modified: 08 Jun 2023 07:10
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:127559
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/46498
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